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Programme outcome the project contributes to: “Improved prevention and reduced inequalities in health”. The project aims to develop and disseminate a school culture that encourages the physical activity of students throughout a school day and to establish a support system for training and counselling of the schools.
Decreasing physical activity (PA) of children is a great concern. Evidence shows that schools has a high potential to support the PA of students. The aim of the project is to develop and disseminate a model where school culture encourages the PA of students throughout the school day and to establish sustainable scaling up of the model. The core content activities of the project are: 1) Model of Schools in Motion (SiM) development and validation; 2) SiM implementation in schools all over Estonia; 3) Awareness rising and dissemination of SiM principles, activities and best practices.
Project activities shall include:
- The development and dissemination of the model of “the school inviting to move”;
- Training and counselling to support school teams to start or continue the dissemination of the school culture supporting the physical activity of students throughout the school day;
- Training and counselling of teachers on methods and skills to enhance the physical activity of children during lessons and recess;
- Training for teachers of physical education to support physical activity throughout the school day;
- Development of a training system for pupils acting as “play leaders” in schools;
- Exchange of best practices and counselling for schools on designing indoors and outdoors environment to support physical activity during the school day;
- Development of monitoring, analysis and evaluation tools/systems of project activities and dissemination of best practices;
- Co-operation and exchange of best practice with donor state experts, national and international experts.